Tuesday's Sound Off

Are you afraid of the IRS now? Wait until Obamacare takes over. You’ll really be afraid then.

RALPH, BUS DRIVER FROM SANATOGA

I listen to many people comment on the deplorable environment today in Pottstown. Fidel Castro was once asked how his once beautiful capital city had fallen into such disrepair under communism. His response was that when people own nothing, they don’t take care of anything. Sound familiar?

JIM FITCH

I would just like to thank the person who opened up the all American-made clothing store, I think it’s called “Nothing But Jeans.” I’ve been wearing Texas jeans for more than three years. They’re absolutely fantastic and you cannot wear the pants out. Everybody needs to start buying American.

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I would like to know why the Pottstown custodians at the high school can smoke and the children get in trouble when you’re not supposed to be smoking on school grounds?

CONCERNED CITIZEN

I don’t know if anyone else knows someone like this. It seems that every time I tell this one guy something that I did or something that happened to me, he always seems to think he has a better story, something that happened to him and he’ll proceed to tell that story. In other words, he likes to top mine. If I tell him I won some money, he tells me a story about money he won but the amount is always higher than what I won. I’m half tempted to call him Top Cat.

TOP THAT

I’m glad to see that Mike of Wheels in Motion is consolidating his businesses to the old Dames building. Mike worked for me back in the day and is one of the good guys in this business. Maybe he can help bring the glory days back to High Street. Best of luck to you. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’ll miss it when it’s gone. I do.

BART

I have a great idea. Let’s build some more developments in Royersford, Linfield and Limerick area. We need more people and cars. Everyone wants to move here from everywhere else. Maybe they like the nuclear plant but they all ruined our quiet little hometowns. Let’s send them all back to where they came from. I think we’ll probably need bigger schools too and bigger parking lots, every family has three cars. Oh goody, more tax increases.

To Jury Duty, my brother was the one guilty of that charge. He is the most honest person you’d ever want to know. He got hurt at work and his boss set him up about wiping a wheel down on a motorcycle. He didn’t even use the arm that was hurt. He got set up and everybody got paid off. That’s the way it is in Montgomery County.

Pops, either you are an Access card holder stalker or a member of the food stamp police because you can describe a member’s food bill, their appearance and the getaway car. I suggest you read a few studies on the working poor in America. Have you ever complained about American welfare dollars going to Israel? I suggest you go to the nearest public assistance office since you say you have a lot to pay out of your meager income. Sounds like you qualify.

MOM

I have to laugh about most of the people who put yard sale signs up in Pottstown on telephone poles, etc. and never take them down. Eventually they fall off due to being up too long and the weather. Just what we need, more trash blowing around in town. Maybe if they were made to pay a fee for a permit before they put a sign up, they would think twice about taking it down.

JUST SAYING

Look at the outstanding recreational and educational pleasures that Obama is going to give to the prisoners in Gitmo. They should be given to USA children and young adults, not prisoners from foreign countries. Please impeach him and stop Obamacare. Doesn’t anyone care about this nation, the senior citizens and military? Please God bless America.

Hey Pottstown, what did you think about the Class of 2013 graduation? If everybody needed a ticket to get in, what happened to single-file and taking turns instead of having ignorant people pushing, shoving and calling people nasty names to get in. Congrats class of 2013.

I was driving down High Street and I really appreciated the beauty of how they’re trying with the flowers and hanging baskets. Everything looks really nice. All we have to do now is cut those polluting buses in half and get the timing down on our traffic lights and we could have a nice little town and everybody could be in Happyland.